IFB98: Why You Shouldn’t Be a Lone Wolf Investor

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Dave:                                    00:36                     All

right folks, we’ll welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. This is episode ninety-eight. Tonight we’re

going to talk about why you shouldn’t be a lone

wolf investor. And I’m going to have Andrew kind

of take us from there. All Right, Andrew, why don’t you go ahead and

chat.

Andrew:                              00:50                     Yeah, I love it. So maybe I’m recording this because this is something I need to tell myself more than anything else. Having people around and having them influence your life can do a lot of things for you. Very, very well. They say the five people closest to you are the most important because they impact how you live your life and the big, big way. So I, I kind of present this topic and this idea based on some personal context. I guess I didn’t mean to get like super personal, but there’s a saying that as you get close to the turn of a decade you start to make big moves, right? So we’re here close to the end of 2020 and that full decade before.

Andrew:                              01:41                     So

it’s time to make some big moves, and

we’re going to talk about some big ideas and the show. So when I think about

what got me here and I kind of reflect on my past and the journey I’ve

taken, and even this podcast where we’re at 98 episodes approaching a hundred

here, and we have way more people than I

thought, whatever, listening and tune in. It’s

been incredible. We get tons of

feedback, tons of emails, and that’s been such a wild ride. But you know, it’s

funny to think about how it all started then and maybe how, if it weren’t for

the people that were placed in at least my life, how it when I’ve gotten this far. So when I think about investing

personal finance,